Once Upon A Midnight Desert

While on a combat mission in Afghanistan, U.S. Army Sergeant Dawson Lee is assigned to escort and protect CNN correspondent, Lianne Palmer and her cameraman. The company comes under attack by the Taliban and Dawson is seriously injured while trying to rescue the cameraman. He ultimately ends up at Walter Reed Hospital for continued medical treatment. While recuperating Dawson is visited by his fiancé who dumps him because of his injuries. He becomes depressed and uncooperative with his rehabilitation program. Assigned to the Washington CNN bureau, Lianne looks Dawson up and finds him is a state of torpor. She takes an interest in him and rallies behind him to see him recover. The two fall in love and begin a long distance affair once he returns to Georgia. Discharged from the Army, Dawson decides to open an outdoor recreational equipment store. With the help of his father, the business does well. Dawson and Lianne marry and travel between their home in Georgia and Washington D.C. Life is great until Lianne is given an assignment to cover the war in Afghanistan again. Dawson is concerned for her safety. While she is gone he takes a trip across the U.S. to keep his mind busy from worry about Lianne. In Southern Arizona, Dawson goes on a backpacking trip into the desert guided by a local Native American woman. They find two small illegal children whose mother had been murdered. With the aid of the guide, he hatches a plan to take the children home and raise them as his own. Still deployed, Lianne is upset with his decision for fear it would jeopardize her career if the news came out that they were harboring illegal's. She returns from Afghanistan and eventually accepts the children who have been given U.S. status.

• | Author: John Evans
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: Dec 15, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 402 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1791742246
• | ISBN-13: 9781791742249